The above is how, in 1988, comedian Mort Sahl said the New York Times  would headline the end of the world. That came to mind when I saw this headline from the Los Angeles Times. The headline is, of course, related to global warming. As the article says, The  study , which was published Monday [Halloween, naturally]  in the journal Nature Sustainability, does not predict when the next 100-year flood will occur. However, the paper is among the first to examine how whiplashing weather extremes due to climate change may impact the Los Angeles Basin — a region whose development was guided by deep social and racial divisions that favored white residents. In the Los Angeles Basin, researchers found that Black, Latino, and Asian residents were — respectively— 79%, 17%, and 11% more likely than white residents to be exposed to waist-high flooding. The projected storm simply does not and will not exist. There is no such thing as a storm that produces a uniform amount of rain ove...

Big Climate is cranking out the press releases as they vie for the big dollars from President Biden's climate bill. The latest generated headlines about a $1 Trillion flood in California made possible by global warming.  There is a genuine threat of a trillion dollar flood in California and it isn't necessary for global warming to play a role. I wrote about this  threat on November 5 of last year after reading a historical article in Scientific American.  All that has been done by the UCLA researchers is to take the 1862 disaster and superimpose it on today's dense population and huge growth of wealth in the state. As to the increasing temperatures causing heavier rates of rain in California, that is the result of a computer model and there is hardly enough data to confirm this is truly the case.  The study is useful as an exercise as to which areas of the state are most vulnerable when the next megaflood occurs. Plus, I continue to worry that there is far too littl...